Senator Maurice Hayes mentioned the importance of the multi-agency approach. As I stated previously when the Minister was in the House, the local authorities play an important role in crime prevention. I welcome the plans about which the Minister spoke for a local government-Garda partnership. The Labour Party made this proposal, as far as I know during the 1991 local government election and certainly during the last local government election, and it is a development I would like to see. As a county councillor, I see it as a useful formation.